Date: Fri, 7 Mar 2014 17:30:02 -0800 From: Adrian Chadd <adrian@freebsd.org> To: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: Rui Paulo <rpaulo@freebsd.org>, David Chisnall <theraven@freebsd.org>, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com>, FreeBSD Current <freebsd-current@freebsd.org>, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com>, David Xu <davidxu@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: warning: filename ends with '.', which is not allowed on Windows: 'tools/test/sort/bigtest/q-1.024.003.' Message-ID: <CAJ-VmomtrxF-FbbQrm32MN61rrpD9gfEMuy1wrEvc3NP6xtqkw@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <22DB6968-3DCC-4B35-9210-891DB28D7CE7@gmail.com> References: <5319757E.1060301@freebsd.org> <821C2C51-604E-43E0-9796-300996B81B41@FreeBSD.org> <40D5835F-679A-4ED9-AFC4-8E80773E5D82@FreeBSD.org> <3D879607-7AB5-475E-86DC-BBD97FC7269D@felyko.com> <CAF6rxgkNf_rDMSDUH911pB9qZJAVg31-wpQwXhH7NaLZ81%2BdCQ@mail.gmail.com> <22DB6968-3DCC-4B35-9210-891DB28D7CE7@gmail.com>
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On 7 March 2014 15:25, Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> wrote: > > On Mar 7, 2014, at 4:12 PM, Eitan Adler <lists@eitanadler.com> wrote: > >> On 7 March 2014 13:50, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@felyko.com> wrote: >>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 10:38, David Chisnall <theraven@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>> >>>> On 7 Mar 2014, at 16:41, Rui Paulo <rpaulo@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>> >>>>> On 6 Mar 2014, at 23:30, David Xu <davidxu@FreeBSD.org> wrote: >>>>>> it seems filename ended with a dot is illegal on Windows, if someone >>>>>> wants to check out freebsd source code on Windows, it will be a prob= lem. >>>>> >>>>> Is this something we want to support? >>>> >>>> Yes, definitely. Building FreeBSD on other platforms is one of the re= quests we get very often from embedded systems vendors. Cheap virtualisati= on has made it less urgent (they can just stick a FreeBSD VirtualBox VM on = their workstations), but it's definitely something we'd like eventually. T= o my knowledge, no one is working on it, but we should aim to make life eas= y for whoever does... >>> >>> I guess I should clarify: I wasn't talking about cross building in gene= ral, but specifically on Windows. It's far easier to setup a case-sensitiv= e file system on OS X and cross build FreeBSD from there than it is on Wind= ows. >> >> Over 50% of the people that come to FreeBSD.org run windows. If it is >> possible to support building on windows, we should try. > > The big issue isn't case sensitivity or file names ending in dot. The rea= l issue is that our build just isn't setup for this at the moment and it wo= uld be a big lift to make it work at all. Sure, go ahead and fix this minor= flea-bite of an issue, but there are several large elephant-sized issues b= efore we could have even a tiny chance of doing this... > are those issues documented anywhere? :) -a
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